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Showing posts with label Ford. Show all posts
Such is the success of the Ford Transit that its name has almost become the British word for light commercial vehicles. As a model name or even perhaps a sub brand within Ford it has outlived all its contemporaries such as the Escort Cortina or Granada. Often sold as `Transit the Backbone of Britain' (at one point Ford even produced T-shirts with that slogan written vertically down the wearer's spine) it shows no sign of dying yet. Bazooka Gum was launched just after the WWII and is best known for the character Bazooka Joe who appeared in comic strips enclosed in the packets. Shop here
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No other light commercial vehicle has had such a wide variety of uses as the Transit, think of a task and someone has converted the ever ready Transit to do it. In fact at its launch in 1965 the Transit range contained a staggering seventy-eight different models, and the range has continued to expand. Shop here
Corgi DG207006 1:76 Scale Ford Anglia Van - Watneys Trackside
Monday, September 20, 2010
3:31 PM
Posted by
timo
Perhaps the most well known beer of the 60s and 70s Watneys Red Barrel (or Watneys Red) can trace its origins back to 1931. Red Barrel was originally developed as an export beer that could be transported for long distances by sea. Like all keg bitter it was filtered to remove the yeast then pasteurised and carbon dioxide added. Red Barrel was first sampled at the East Sheen Lawn Tennis Club where Watneys Master Brewer Bert Hussey was a member. By the early 60s Watneys was transporting its kegs nationwide and were able to claim that it was the country's most popular keg bitter and the first. Shop here
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